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Modern research workflows increasingly require side-by-side discovery of publications, data, and software. Existing efforts increasingly provide this interlinked discovery for publications (Science Explorer (Sci-X)) and data (HelioData). Current Heliophysics scientific software interfaces, however, are lacking in relevance for Heliophysics, connection to data and publications, and scope.
This situation is further worsened by troubling gaps in publication infrastructure, resulting in citations to software in peer-reviewed publications being lost in tracking and attribution infrastructure. As a result, the science software funded by U.S. agencies, including NASA, is difficult to discover despite increasingly valiant attempts by researchers and publishers to adopt open science practices.
The Heliophysics Software Search Interface (HSSI; https://hssi.hsdcloud.org/) platform is an open-source NASA ROSES23 HPOSS-funded effort to address these issues and improve Heliophysics software’s findability, discoverability, accessibility, citability, and searchability. Over a year into the effort, we have successfully completed our initial goal of creating the HSSI platform, including a landing page to search for science software in Heliophysics, a public resource registration form, as well as a new metadata structure that is tailored to Heliophysics specific needs and aligned with international standards. The landing page for the software search design is predominantly built upon NASA’s highly adopted Exoplanet Modeling and Analysis Center (EMAC) with a RestAPI added on top. We have successfully collaborated with EMAC to release the updated version of the code through LASP with the open-source Apache 2.0 license.
This work will take viewers through an overview of the current HSSI website, including details on how to use the website, the state of our backend, the HSSI AI-powered Metadata Orchestrator and finally, efforts towards coordination with cross-disciplinary communities and tools.